Tombstone epitaph., 1887-11-26

OFF 1clAI PAPER OF oooEIsR COUNTY
 ALFALFA AND JOHNSON GRASS.
 We clip from the Florence "A. T. En- terprise the following:
 MT. w. C. Fuller has finished cutting his fifth crop of alfalfa for the present year, the last cutting giving yield of about ton of hay to the acre. He has on his ranch, four and half miles east of town, fifteen acres of alfalfa, and has got over I5o tons of hay from the field, an average of ten tons to an acres all of which brought Sra. 50 per ton in Flor ence.
 The first crop last spring yielded fsur and one half tons to the acre; the subse- quent crops were not permitted to grow so rank, but they exceeded ton to the acre on an average.
 The proceeds of the total crop of hay from MT. Fuller's I5-acre field amounted to SI875, or SI25 per acre, and he has the benefit of a fine pasturage all winter. This is not an exceptional production, but any industrious and attentive farmer can accomplish as good results every year.
 To the Eastern farmer this may seem incredible, but it is only. one 1 khe many methods of growing ricn~ ldfm- ing in Arizona, where the moving machine is in use long after the snow has fallen in the East and again in the spring lsng before it melts.
 Can the cotton growers of the South ern States, or the grain farmers of the Middle and Western States, show any such results, or even half or quarter such profits per acre on their best farmsf AL falfa being perennial and always reliable for from six to ten tons of hay per acre, if irrigated, will certainly keep in good condition the year round from three to five head of horses or cattle per acre.
 Of Johnson grass Sorghum halapense) but little is know in Arizona. In the Southern States it is decidedly the mos { valuable of all the grasses grown m that section, and in this country, where the land can be irrigated, it will doubtless yield as much or more than alfalfa, and the quality of the hay is much better for working animals. From an old copy of the South and West we extract the fol- lowing:
 Among all the grasses that grow, none is attracting the attention of the world as much as the Johnson grass Sorghum halapense.) Experience proves that it is worthy to stand at the head of all culti. yated grasses. Some of its virtues are as follows: It is perennial, a rapid grower, very nutricious, being eagerly devoured by all kinds of stock, comes early in the spring, grows until the frost cuts 1t down late in the fall, stands the drought better than any other grass, hav- ing long cane-like roots, which penetrate the soil to a great depth for moisture, superior, both as grazing and hay grass, has abundance of roots, which decay, thereby enriching theground, rather than exhausting it, as Timothy does; belonging to the sorghum family, it contains much saccharine, which is an important factor in the feeding of stock, it will grow on any land where corn will growth fact corn is only d larger species of grass. It is undoubtedly the best forage plant known. On land that will produce a bale of cotton to the acre, four to six tons of hay can be cut per anncm, cutting three and four times; heavy fertilizing would produce greater results. Flow deep and prepare ground we'll, SOW in early spring, or in August or September, SOW brodcast one () bushel clean seed per acre. v
 MT. Walter Caruth, one of the largest and most successful farmers of Dallas county, Texas, writes to friend in reply to a letter making inquiries about his success with Johnson grass: q regard the Johnson grass the king of all grasses for hay; cut mine four times last year, making two tons per acre in each cut. ting"
 MT. Wm. Little, another farmer at Hutchins, Dallas county, Texas, is culti- vating sad grass extensively, he writes after a fair trial of same: "The Johnson grass is grand success, and is the best grass for hay l haveever seen, and makes more of it than any other grass"
 It is safe to say that with such results as are reported on lands liable to suffer more or less from the drought every year, that in this climate, where irrigation is practicable, Johnson grass would yield from eight to ten tons of hay per annum to the acre.
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